robinph wrote: » True, but the running style was not of someone sprinting for the line either. Just from the initial watching of the finish I thought she was backing off the pace before seeing the head on view. Like I'd said though, it just looked weird. No telling what was actually going on pace/ effort wise in reality between all of them, but it looked odd and not as if she was trying to get to 3rd.
HelenAnne wrote: » I very much doubt that she was just jogging in ... maybe she just doesn't show effort on her face in the same way Laura Weightman does ...
robinph wrote: » But that is what it looked like. Really didn't appear to be trying to get past Weightman, or was scared to. If you are in 4th and chasing down 3rd, why are you wasting your effort looking at the screen? If you are in 4th you may as well be in 5th, you still don't medal, it really doesn't matter one bit who is coming up behind you. All you should be concentrating on is beating the person in 3rd who is clearly struggling. If you don't over take the person in 3rd then you'll not be 3rd, regardless of who may be overtaking you from behind. With 50m to go she is up on the shoulder of Weightman and about to follow the other runner past her, then she backs off?!? There is no final sprint finish effort from her, she's just jogging in to the line. There was a massive amount of work she'd had to do to get there admittedly, but she had Weightman beaten.
4Ad wrote: » So Macgeean didn't try for a medal at a major championship and had zero interest ? Happy with 4th... I dont think so...
Peterx wrote: » It looked to me (all credit to the armchair pundit) like she had used her matches in that earlier surge to get back within reach of the medals and was also running on fumes and was looking at the big screen to see if she'd be caught for 4th. You could see in the Gillick interview she gave it everything, and I do mean everything All in all a brilliant championships to view and fantastic to see so much minority sport on RTE. Sonia obviously wanted to get that off her chest for a while, she was chef de mission before so was speaking from experience
robinph wrote: » It was strange to watch Mageen. Weightman was done and had nothing left at all, Mageen pulled alongside and just appeared to jog in. When they showed the head on view Weightmans expression wasn't of finding a final last spurt of speed, it was just of being broken and trying to not fall over before the line, whilst Mageen just looked like she was out for a stroll and zero interest in racing for the line.
Sheridan81 wrote: » What did Jerry and Sonia say about Ciara Mageean after her race? I really can't ever see her getting a medal in a major championship. It was a relatively weak 1500 field tonight. She seems to have no real kick. Was she looking at the big screen when she was behind Weightman in the home straight? Seemed like she knew she wasn't going to catch her.
echat wrote: » The men's marathon team performed excellently and were only 4-5 minutes off the medals. However I think it is very unfair to criticise an athlete on national tv for choosing an individual final instead of a chance of helping the team in the marathon. Were athletes who ran the individual women's 400 criticised for not opting for the 4x400m (both finals were only an hour apart)? The weather was torrid for the men's 10000m so 29:46 in those conditions was a really solid run. An athlete goes through a huge amount of training, doubt, and frustration to get to that standard and then to be criticised a few minutes after finishing for not running in a different event was very unfair.
Hermy wrote: » Anyone know why the Czech team were DNS in the 4x100 final?
horsebox1977 wrote: » I don't really get what Sonia was saying, she appeared to be rambling a bit, and Collins or others never got her to elaborate.The relay team in fairness are still VERY young and still broke the record, yet she appeared to throw them under the bus, for what reason I don't really know. I can understand the point she was making in relation to the marathon with the athletes working as a team rather than individuals. I thought the relay team did everything right.
Sheridan81 wrote: » What did Jerry and Sonia say about Ciara Mageean after her race? I really can't ever see her getting a medal in a major championship. It was a relatively weak 1500 field tonight. She seems to have no real kick.
caviardreams wrote: » Wow, interesting comments from Sonia there re the womens relay team (and possibly other events) putting individual goals above maximising the potential of the team
Faugheen wrote: » He'll probably win the European u20s next year with his first vault.
Goose76 wrote: » Scullion opting for 10,000 metres instead of marathon perhaps?
Strazdas wrote: » Yes, what was getting at there? Was she blaming the team selectors or was she saying something about the athletes?
Itziger wrote: » If that Duplantis lad doesn't make it to the very top and stay there for a generation I'll be surprised and disappointed. As for Jakob Inge....... Can he do it at world level? Win that is, he can already compete.
caviardreams wrote: » Wow, interesting comments from Sonia there re the womens relay team (and possibly other events) putting individual goals above maximising the potential of the team Have really enjoyed Derval on the panel Kerry: "there's a young one over in Mayo who's very good at the hammer"
